Melania is preparing the move, without Golpidiota in Chief's knowledge
According to Politico, Donald Trump is the representative of the worst boomers, quarrelsome, inconclusive and self-righteous. Meanwhile, the First Lady is already halfway through the move without her knowledge and the sponsors of the Republican representatives are starting to review their spending policies
Trump, president of the Worst Generation
«These baby boomers, now at the end of their careers, are valid contenders for the title of Worst Generation. As the worst president there are other candidates. But there aren't many who have quarreled so much and clarified so little, or presided over so much institutional decay ».
The gloom and anxiety of Donald Trump's last days are occasionally illuminated by real flashes of intelligence, or at least by good ideas for picking on someone. Not just with Trump. With his entire generation of baby boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, they lived - in the West - better than anyone else in human history.
End users, it is feared precisely, of resources, people, institutions. John Harris, one of the founders of Politico, talks about it in a comment released yesterday. And he writes: "The Trump generation, which dominates public life even after the age of seventy, comes after ... the Greatest Generation (the one that made and / lived through the Second World War, ed)". Self-righteous and quarrelsome, the worst boomers "argue over ideological wars, cultural wars, identity politics, who is the real victim, who is divisive, who is the biggest hypocrite and the most serious threat to decency." They have been discussing it for half a century, and according to Harris they don't even want to win, they want to prolong the debate indefinitely.
The worst boomers themselves, Harris continues, "invented commercialized contempt" and created "a political-media system that profits from malice, division, indignation. For accounting purposes, it doesn't matter if these are real or simulated. ' Harris concludes by noting that even after 74-year-old Trump is gone, the most important people in Washington will be Joe Biden (78), Nancy Pelosi (80), Mitch McConnell (78), and promising Chuck Schumer (70). But the question, as we know, is wider.
Trump packs his bags without his knowledge
As in the Trump miniseries that half the planet is already imagining, while Donald was tweeting about fraud and haranguing attackers, Melania packed her bags with discretion. Indeed: "The first lady is already halfway through the move," we read in the media. Part of the crates go to Mar-a-Lago, part to the warehouse. The White House staff were involved in the semi-clandestine operation, making plans not to be noticed by Trump, who apparently was really convinced he could stay.
Melania in the gray area
While Melania, they say, wasn't convinced she wasn't going to Joe Biden's inauguration, she learned about it from a tweet from her husband, a source at CNN's White House said. The same source pointed out that Trump's marital boorishness shouldn't arouse too much compassion: “You are part of all of this. You can shut up, but you are part of this. '
In this there are the past actions and especially the recent coup d'état activities. And the outgoing first lady is told in a gray area, in which she hardly sees anyone, she does not speak, and takes no position either for or against her husband. The lack of interest (the days of the civil war spent making albums on the furnishings of the White House, the copy-pasted release on the assault on the Capitol) resulted in resignations among collaborators and little success with the public.
Melania did not create an office to continue her activities - very few - and she did not show up with Jill Biden, as she uses between the outgoing and incoming first lady. According to Kate Andersen Brower, historian of the first ladies (she is also a profession, and they often interview you), she "has absorbed her husband's anger."
The only concession to good manners and protocol, the first lady's office sent the Bidens an invitation to sleep in Blair House, the White House guesthouse, before the inauguration; but "the invitation was not sent at Mrs. Trump's insistence" (the Bidens go to the hotel).
The coup idiots and their facilitators
For those wondering "how did it happen that so many fascists and baluba were elected in the United States", it might be interesting to read Bankrolling the Disenfranchisers, a report by the progressive group Public Citizen on their financiers. Corporations and lobbies contributed a total of 170 million to the campaigns of the 147 Republican MPs who voted against the certification of the electoral results. Among the most generous are AT&T, the American Bankers Association, the National Automobile Dealers Association, the National Association of Realtors, the National Beer Wholesalers Association, and jokes could be made.
Some, like AT&T, have cut their funds. Others "are evaluating their strategy in their contributions", others still organize "meetings with stakeholders in the coming weeks to review political activities". Among the beneficiaries, the most attacked are Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley (the one with raised arm and fist to greet the rioters). Many are calling for their resignations, which won't come (they and others are in a Daily Show video; it's called Heroes of Insurrection, and it mounts Fox News sound bites, and it's chilling).
Trap for a MAGA
"Come on girls. Let's go hunting !, Lisa Corrigan tweeted yesterday, and 350,000 linked it and 60,000 retweeted it. Corrigan, a college professor in Arkansas, shared a post about a girl who launched a new urban legend and a potential red antitrumpian steering wheel.
In short, the girl said that one of her friends has changed her political orientation to "conservative" on dating sites. She has had many online encounters with some “MAGA Bros”, Trumpian youths, who bragged to her about their feats in the Capitol by sending photos. And she sent the photos to the FBI. The story is perhaps false but very similar. And the coup on Tinder may still give thought (art critic Jerry Saltz invoked the Presidential Medal of Freedom for the girl; in subsequent tweets, Corrigan makes sense: to deprogram Trumpism, you have to make Americans feel part of something, "something non-fascist"; because "the decline of civic associations has been replaced by Fox News"; instead, so far, "while the MAGAs talked about freedom, the liberals were baking bread and doing puzzles", that a little ' everywhere).
